Tripura CM Biplab Deb goes under home quarantine, family members test COVID positive

Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has gone under home quarantine for seven days after he was tested negative for the lethal virus on August 3^rd, 2020. Two of his family members were tested positive for the virus.

The Tripura CM in a tweet informed that the government has decided to grant permission to Gyms, Yoga and other fitness centers in the state to resume its functions by maintaining proper SOPs from August 4^th, 2020.

The state has currently 1820 active COVID-19 cases while 3675 have recovered from the infection and 28 succumbed to the infection, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The state has registered the second-highest COVID-19 cases in the Northeast.

Also read: Assam reports 2371 new COVID cases, 4 deaths in last 24 hours

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India COVID-19 cases so far

Coronavirus cases in India have now crossed the 18.55-lakh mark while death toll has neared the 39,000-mark. A total of 52000 positive cases and 803 deaths were ported in the last 24 hours. After Home Minister Amit Shah, Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa, now Congress MP Karti Chidambaram and CPIM leader Mohammed Salim have also tested positive for coronavirus. As coronavirus cases rise, Bengal has again changed the dates of complete lockdown in August and is facing the public ire over the repeated changes. Across the world, coronavirus cases have gone past 1.8 crore and over 6.91 lakh people have died so far. A WHO team that was visiting China to investigate the origins of Covid-19, has concluded its mission and WHO is now preparing a larger team of experts to visit Wuhan. Meanwhile, US expert Dr Fauci has expressed confidence that Americans will get the coronavirus vaccine by 2021.

Among the states, Maharashtra is the first state to cross 13 thousand deaths. It has recorded 147324 active corona cases, 287030 cured and 15842 deaths. The western state is followed by Delhi and Tamil Nadu. Delhi has 10207 active corona cases, 124254 cured and 4021 deaths. Tamil Nadu has 56698 active cases, 4241 deaths. Gujarat with 14599 active COVID-19 cases, 47478 cured and 2508 deaths.

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